'Batman' Shooting Suspect Identified

A photo of James Holmes, the suspect in the Aurora shootings, has been released.

A photo of James Holmes, the suspect in the Aurora shootings, has been released by the University of Colorado, Reuters reports.

Authorities have identified Holmes, 24, as the alleged gunman responsible for killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens during a mass shooting inside a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, early Friday morning.

The University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver has told the Associated Press that Holmes dropped of the medical school last month. The school spokeswoman, Jacque Montgomery, said she did not know the reason.

The Washington Post states that investigators believe the shooter —armed with a shotgun, rifle and two handguns — was wearing a gas mask and set off a gas canister before opening fire in the theater. The victims of the mass shooting range in age from 3 months to 45 years, reported CNN.

Police said that the apartment of the suspect was booby trapped so they evacuated five of the surrounding buildings, according to the Associated Press. Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said bomb technicians were working on disarming some flammable or explosive material.

FBI agents reportedly used a hook and ladder fire truck and a 12-foot pole with a camera at the end to peek into the apartment, and Oates said the pictures were fairly disturbing.

The apartment was around four miles from the theater where the shooting took place.

Holmes was born December 13, 1987, according to CBS News.

President Obama, who earlier expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, said in an address Friday that "such violence, such evil is senseless," CNN reports.

GlobalPost spoke with a witness, Sharon Segura, who described a brutally chaotic scene. She and her husband, Quentin Caldwell, were in the theater next to the one where the shooting occurred.

“We get about 10 minutes into the movie and there is this big action scene and there’s lots of gunfire. And there is just maybe five or six really loud pops," Segura said. “So I freak out and I jump a little. And my husband laughs at me, and I said, ‘no you don’t understand that wasn’t part of the movie, that was real. That was way too loud.’”